M u s t. r e a d & s h a r e. w i t h. a l l. y o u r. s i s t e r s & b r o t h e r s!!!

There are very few authentic books on prominent Muslim women that inspire generations to come. This book is a preface of a 53-volume biographical dictionary of the 8000 Muslim women who studied and taught hadith in the history of Islam. It demonstrates the central role women had in preserving the Prophet’s teaching. A decades work during which Dr. Mohammad Akram Al Nadwi documented biographical accounts of 8,000 female scholars of hadith (Muhaddithat). Before he began his research the scholar, a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies was not aware of the number of scholars he would uncover. That women were able to attain a high rank in all fields of knowledge, that they were actually preferred over men to teach fiqh and tafsir due to their longer lifespan, that after Hajj students would flock to Medina to learn from the Muhaddithat, and that men were sometimes students to their wives, is an unknown fact…..